Dungeons & Dragons Battlesystem

These pictures were taken about 8 years ago and this was my first project after a long hiatus from gaming. In the 80's in Maine at a local convention someone use to run massive fantasy battles using mostly Ral Partha figures. His games were probably three or four times the size of the one in the pictures below. Fielding my own game like this had always been a dream of mine, and when I started to get back into gaming the first thing I did was hit Ebay and buy quite a few old Ral Partha figures. I began collected them for years and these pictures show probably half my of what I have collected. I have to salute Ral Patha for what they did for gaming. They had some excellent sculptures and to this day I think their 80's fantasy line captures my picture of a fantasy world filled with goblins and orcs better than much of what is out today.

This battle was held when I was living in San Franciso. The game took place at Jon and Warwick's apartment named Game Central. I had been painting these troops for a few years and this was the second time the majority of them hit the table. They haven't been used since and have been in storage for about 7 years.

The game rules we used were TSR's Dungeons & Dragons Battlesystem. I have no idea why these rules didn't manage to capture gamers attention longer. The second edition rules streamlined the combat. The morale and movement and much else just worked with no suprises and I think you got out of them what you would expect.